Have You Identified the Milestones that Lead to Your Preferred Future?
Do you have a clearly defined preferred future but still struggle to know whether you are moving in the right direction or will ever arrive? If so, it may be that you’ve missed an essential step in the process. What step? Developing milestones that lead to your preferred future (and indicate you are moving in…
Read MoreDilbert on 360-Degree Reviews
Sometimes you just have to laugh. I’m pretty sure Bill Hybels doesn’t think this way. At least he didn’t in the talk I mentioned earlier this week. Here are some of my favorite Dilbert cartoons.
Read MoreThinking Thursday: Charlie Rose – An Hour with Jim Collins
Note: This video is longer than most of my Thinking Thursday recommendations, but it is such a good conversation! Taking the time to watch it. You will be glad that did! In Great By Choice: Uncertainty Chaos and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All we ask: why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos,…
Read MoreQuotebook: The Great Illusion of Leadership
Whatever you want to happen in the lives of the members of your groups must happen first in the lives of your leaders. I love this line from The Wounded Healer: The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.…
Read More360 Leader: 10 Questions for Self-Leadership
If you’ve been along for much of this conversation, you know how frequently I write about the need for small group point people to do to and for the coaches whatever you want them to do to and for your small group leaders. Why? Because “whatever you want to happen in the lives of the…
Read More5 Problems Only an Experienced Small Group Pastor Recognizes
There are certain problems only an experienced small group pastor recognizes. Without the wisdom produced by multiple rodeos, less experienced small group pastors often operate from a wishful thinking kind of optimism born of naïveté. Don’t get me wrong. There are certainly new small group pastors who are quick learners and wiser beyond their years.…
Read MoreRequired Reading: Brimstone: The Art and Act of Holy Nonjudgement
I’ve just finished a book I know you’re going to want to pick up. The latest from Hugh Halter, Brimstone: The Art and Act of Holy Nonjudgement picks up an important thread from his last book (Flesh: Bringing the Incarnation Down to Earth) and offers what turns out to be an essential read if you hope to…
Read MoreThinking Thursday: Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes
When is the last time you did absolutely nothing for 10 whole minutes? Not texting, talking or even thinking? Mindfulness expert Andy Puddicombe describes the transformative power of doing just that: Refreshing your mind for 10 minutes a day, simply by being mindful and experiencing the present moment. (No need for incense or sitting in…
Read MoreQuotebook: Intentions and Actions
It’s one thing to intend to do something. It’s another thing entirely to do the things that lead to your goal. What makes the difference? What accounts for the gap? The gap between intentions and actions is character. —Orrin Woodward Share on X Resolved: 13 Resolutions for Life by Orrin Woodward To see the rest…
Read More5 Ways Your Small Group Ministry Needs to Change…Today
Can you feel it yet in your community? Are you recognizing the signs that there is a change in the wind? Does your small group ministry have the design that will work effectively in light of the seismic changes happening in our culture? Ed Stetzer has famously pointed out that “if the 1950s came back…
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